The term fractal was coined by Benoit B. Mandelbrot (and no, the B in his name doesn’t stand for Benoit B. Mandelbrot), and he was instrumental in the discussion of the coastline paradox.

As it happens, these four lines can serve as a perfect metaphor for the infinitely detailed, "self-similar" nature of fractals. In this interactive, zoom deep into a Mandelbrot set, the most ...

Fractal What? Mandelbrot Explains. ByMatthew Herper, Former Staff. I cover science and medicine, and believe this is biology's century. Apr 02, 2002, 08:00am EST Jun 06, 2013, 02:09pm EDT.

In 1982, Mandelbrot published The Fractal Geometry of Nature, which popularized the idea the natural world was organized by elegant, mathematical principles that could be predicted.

Fractals: A Sense of Scale. By Peter Tyson; Posted 10.01.08; ... In this interactive, zoom deep into a Mandelbrot set, the most famous of fractals, to the mind-bending ...

Mandelbrot coined the term “Fractal,” which is derived from the Latin word fractus, which means irregular or broken. He called himself a “fractalist,” and often referred to his work as ...

Mandelbrot moved on to greener pastures, applying his new mathematical tools to a wide variety of fields. The Fractal Geometry of Nature , a 1982 book on the continual reappearance of fractals in ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Benoit Mandelbrot, a pioneer in fractal mathematics and the person who coined the term, has died in Cambridge, Mass., at the age of 85. Aliette Mandelbrot told ...

The Mandelbrot set is a curious mathematical oddity that, while interesting in its own right, is also a useful tool for benchmarking various types of computers. Its constant computing requirement w… ...

Every time you zoom in further, ... Mandelbrot didn’t start studying fractals and the property of “self-similarity” until the 1960’s, while he was working as a research fellow at IBM.

Benoît B. Mandelbrot, a maverick mathematician who developed the field of fractal geometry and applied it to physics, biology, finance and many other fields, died on Thursday in Cambridge, Mass ...